Workshop

The first Jstacs workshop will be held on May, 19th at Martin Luther University. The aim of the workshop is to increase the visibility of Jstacs and the implemented projects, to bring developers and users together, as well as to identify further needs.

Depending on the audience the workshop will be held in English or German.

Program

Time	Presenter	Type	Title & Infos
09:00 - 10:00	Jan Grau & Jens Keilwagen	Tutorial	Introduction to Jstacs Information about: Alphabet, AlphabetContainer, Sequence, Sample, Model, ScoringFunction, Classifier, Optimization, Parameter, ParameterSet, StrandModel
10:00 - 10:45	Jan Grau & Jens Keilwagen	Tutorial	New Features of Jstacs 1.5 Information about: Alignment, HMM package, Discriminative Sampling
10:45 - 11:15	Michael Scharfe	Talk	A Hidden Markov Model for Phylogenetic Footprinting
11:15 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 13:30	Michael Seifert	Talk	Exploiting prior knowledge and gene distances in the analysis of tumor expression profiles with extended Hidden Markov Models Abstract: Changes in gene expression levels play a central role in tumors. Additional information about the distribution of gene expression levels and distances between adjacent genes on chromosomes should be integrated into the analysis of tumor expression profiles. We use a Hidden Markov Model with distance-scaled transition matrices (DSHMM) to incorporate chromosomal distances of adjacent genes on chromosomes into the identification of differentially expressed genes in breast cancer.
13:30 - 14:00	Ralf Eggeling	Talk	Maximum Tsallis Entropy Models
14:00 - 14:30	Martin Gleditzsch	Talk	tba
14:30 - 15:15		Discussion	Discussion on future directions and improvements of Jstacs

Location

The workshop will be held on May, 19th in room 5.09 at the Institute of Computer Science at Martin Luther University Halle (Von-Seckendorff-Platz 1).

Contact

If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us by mail jstacs@informatik.uni-halle.de.